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Pakistani gov minister offers $100K reward for death of film maker
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Last US surge troops leave Afghanistan
[Dawn] The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that President Barack Obama
I am the change that you seek...
sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge have left the country, US defence officials said Thursday.

The withdrawal, which began in July, follows an unprecedented number of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
soldiers being rubbed out by their Afghan colleagues, 51 so far this year, and comes as anti-Western protests sweep Moslem countries.

There are still some 68,000 US military forces in Afghanistan, as well as some 40,000 from NATO's Isaf coalition.

The US-led effort to contain the Taliban insurgency involves a phased withdrawal of troops as newly trained Afghan forces take their place. The plan is for Afghans to take charge of their own security by the end of 2014.

The temporary increase in troops helped Western-led forces regain ground in Afghanistan's south and southwest against the Taliban, which has now stepped up attacks in the eastern region bordering Pakistain.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


Africa North
Islamist militia bases stormed in Benghazi
Good for them. String the Islamicist bastards up.
At least four people have been killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi after military police and protesters took over several militia bases.

The violence followed a day of protests by tens of thousands of citizens demanding an end to the armed groups.

The bases include the HQ of the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, suspected of involvement in an attack on the US consulate in the city. Witnesses say supporters of Ansar al-Sharia lined up outside its headquarters, in front of the crowd, waving black and white banners. They fired into the air to try to disperse the protesters, but fled with their weapons after the base was surrounded by waves of people shouting "no to militias".

Buildings and a car were set alight and fighters evicted.

However, in a standoff outside the headquarters of the Sahaty Brigade in the city, three people were killed and at least 20 injured according to witnesses and officials. Another person was killed and another 20 injured in other incidents, city hospitals said.

The BBC's Rana Jawad in the capital Tripoli says the Sahaty Brigade is believed to be operating under the authority of the Ministry of Defence. Officials in Tripoli have been appealing for calm, she says.

Senior Libyan officials say that while they welcomed the protests, people should differentiate between the rogue militias and honest rebel brigades that helped to secure the town in last year's uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi.

Earlier, some 30,000 protesters marched through Benghazi calling for an end to the armed groups and a return to the rule of law. Thousands of Libyans in Benghazi marched against the presence of militias. There has been a wave of hostility towards the militias since US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others Americans died in the 11 September attack on the Benghazi consulate.
Maybe there is an ounce of sanity in Benghazi...
"I don't want to see armed men wearing Afghani-style clothes stopping me in the street to give me orders, I only want to see people in uniform," said university student Omar Mohammed, who took part in the takeover of the Ansar al-Sharia compound.

Many Libyans have expressed outrage at the attack on the US consulate, which followed a protest triggered by an anti-Islam film made in the US.

Libya's interim government has since come under renewed and intense pressure to rein in well-armed extremist militia groups and force them to disband.

Friday's march was the largest seen in Benghazi - considered the heartland of Libya's uprising - since Col Gaddafi was deposed.

Armed militia groups which helped to defeat Gaddafi remain powerful in many parts of the country. They are better armed and more numerous than Libya's official army, and there have been reports of militias intimidating and carrying out killings against rivals.

Earlier this week authorities in Libya arrested around 50 people in connection with the attack on the US consulate.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My delight in this news item are tempered by the knowledge that it is (almost certain) to represent the most recent clash in a long running feud between two groups of savages with the apparent justification being just an excuse. But, maybe, I'm just being cynical.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/22/2012 5:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Well done Libya get rid of the wannabe Taliban which is affecting lots of muslim countries.
Posted by: Fester Clunter7205 || 09/22/2012 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  is that from the rand corp news channel and the DNC that crapped on God and Israel yet supports Islam? Or just uses Islam!
Posted by: Angiting Snore1647 || 09/22/2012 7:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Earlier, some 30,000 protesters marched through Benghazi calling for an end to the armed groups and a return to the rule of law.

Unfortunately, that means Sharia Law.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/22/2012 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  It's taqiyya all the way down.
Posted by: tipper || 09/22/2012 17:06 Comments || Top||

#6  "I don't want to see armed men wearing Afghani-style clothes stopping me in the street to give me orders, I only want to see people in uniform," said university student Omar Mohammed.

That's the difference between you and most of us, Omar. I don't want "people in uniform," armed or otherwise, "stopping me in the street to give me orders."

If I'm minding my own business and not doing anything illegal, NOBODY has the right to "stop me in the street to give me orders."

Y'all accept too much crap as "normal."

But thanks for driving the bastards out this week, anyway.
Posted by: Barbara || 09/22/2012 20:47 Comments || Top||


Pro-American Libyans Besiege Group Suspected in U.S. Envoy's Death
[NY Times] Galvanized by anger over the killing of the popular American ambassador here last week, thousands of Libyans marched through this city on Friday, demanding the disarming of the militias that helped topple the dictatorship but have troubled the country with their refusal to disband.

In a show of mass frustration at the gangs, protesters seized control of several militia headquarters on Friday night and handed them over to Libya's national army. They also stormed the headquarters of Ansar al-Sharia
...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends...
, a hard-line Islamist militia that has been linked to the attack on the United States mission in Benghazi that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. As members of the militia fled their headquarters, protesters there set at least one vehicle on fire, and there were unconfirmed reports that several were maimed by gunfire from the departing gunnies.

The killing of the ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, who was considered a hero in Benghazi because he worked closely with the rebels who toppled Col. Muammar el-Qadaffy last year, appeared to be the spark for the protests on Friday, though hardly its only cause. The militias, which started forming soon after the February 2011 uprising against Colonel Qadaffy, emerged as a parallel and often menacing authority after his downfall, seizing territory for themselves and asserting their authority over the fledgling government.

In western Libya, pie fights between militias resulted in regular street fights with heavy weapons. Months ago, members of Ansar al-Sharia brandishing weapons paraded through Benghazi, the birthplace of the anti-Qadaffy uprising, and called for an Islamic state.

The attack on the American mission in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Stevens, on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks last week, was an affront to many in Benghazi, which the ambassador had made his base during the uprising. He became a familiar, cheerful presence at public events.

"We want justice for Chris," read one sign among the group of an estimated 30,000 Libyans who marched into Benghazi's main square on Friday to protest in front of the main encampment of Ansar al-Sharia. Some held signs reading "The ambassador was Libya's friend," and "Libya lost a friend."

It was unclear whether the backlash against Ansar al-Sharia and the other militias represented an opportunity for the government to consolidate its authority in the post-Qadaffy era in Libya or could lead to new violent confrontations.

Ansar al-Shariah and other militias regard themselves as patriotic guardians that provide security in the power vacuum that formed in many parts of Libya after Colonel Qadaffy's authority collapsed.

Ambassador Stevens and the others were killed in mayhem that was ostensibly provoked by anger over an anti-Islamic video made in the United States, which has been roiling the Mohammedan world for nearly two weeks. But officials have said there are indications that the killings were coordinated and planned.

The B.O. regime, which has been careful about assigning blame in the death of Ambassador Stevens and the others, has begun to call the killings a "terrorist attack." The change in language came as Republicans in Congress have criticized the administration over what they have called its failure to anticipate the problems in Libya. Some Republican politicians have moved to cut off aid to Libya as a result.

But one powerful Republican, Senator John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
, counseled against such a move, citing the pro-American demonstration in Benghazi on Friday.

"These brave people in Libya are friends of America," he said in a statement. "They want our help and need our help. And we must continue to provide it to them, which is exactly what Christ Stevens would have wanted."
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336066 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  "And we must continue to provide it to them, which is exactly what Christ Stevens would have wanted."

Freudian slip on the part of the NYT?

[Note: Changed in the later edition.]
Posted by: Pappy || 09/22/2012 12:50 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Four terrorists, two policemen killed in Chechnya
At least four terrorists militants were killed on Thursday during a special police operation in the Russian republic of Chechnya, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov reported.

He said, "The operation has been conducted since early morning in the mountainous area of the Vedensky district [in southern Chechnya]. It is targeting an armed militant group, led by Muslim Gakayev, whose members were planning a number of serious crimes."

Unfortunately, two police officers were also killed in a clash with terrorists militants, Kadyrov said. He added, "The search for remaining militants will resume in the morning."
Posted by: ryuge || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Fifteen killed as Moslems rampage on 'Love the Prophet (PTUI!) Day'
[Dawn] At least 15 people were killed and more than 200 maimed in Pakistain during violent protests Friday condemning a US-made film insulting Islam, defying a government call for only peaceful demonstrations, officials said.

Nine people were killed in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, the country's largest city, and four in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, hospital officials said.

The combined total of maimed in Bloody Karachi, Peshawar and in the capital Islamabad was 229.

Doctor Mohammad Shafqat of Bloody Karachi's Jinnah hospital told AFP that it had received five dead bodies and 65 people with injuries, with more maimed arriving.

Doctor Mohammad Ayub at the Civil Hospital, said his medics had received five dead bodies, including that of a police officer, and at least 40 injured.

The policeman was killed in an exchange of fire with protesters in Bloody Karachi, police official Mohammad Shakeel said.

Thousands erupted into the streets in a series of different demonstrations across Bloody Karachi, home to an estimated 18 million, to condemn the film, "Innocence of Mohammedans".

Scuffles broke out when protesters tried to march towards the US consulate, throwing stones at police and trying to remove shipping containers that blocked the road, police said.

Officers fired off tear gas shells and had gun sex to disperse the crowd, but three coppers were maimed by gunfire from an unknown direction, Shakeel said.

In Islamabad, a doctor at the Services Hospital said 35 people were brought in with injuries, including eight coppers and four civilians with gunshot wounds.

In the northwestern city of Peshawar, the Lady Reading Hospital said it had three dead, including a TV station employee who was shot when protesters set alight and ransacked a cinema.

Doctor Farman at Khyber Teaching Hospital, who used only one name, confirmed that another body had been brought in after the demonstrations.

Hospital doctors in Peshawar gave a combined total of 60 people maimed.

Angry demonstrators armed with clubs and sticks set fire to and ransacked three cinemas in Peshawar.

Three cinemas were also set alight in Bloody Karachi -- two on Bloody Karachi's Muhammad Ali Jinnah road and one in the city's Quaidabad area. Moreover, three private banks were also set on fire near Bloody Karachi's PIDC.

Earlier today, police had told AFP they were on maximum alert and that bomb disposal squads were sweeping planned locations of rallies to ensure that Islamic fascisti could not exploit protests to cause carnage.

"All the entry and exit points of the city are heavily guarded. Helicopters are on stand-by for aerial surveillance," provincial police chief Fayyaz Laghari had told AFP.

"We have deployed our maximum police force to the sensitive parts of the city to ensure security during protest rallies today."

In Rawalpindi, festivities broke out when scores of demonstrators pelted cars and police with stones, and burnt down a booth at a toll plaza, police official Mohammad Munir said.

In Mardan a mob set fire to a church, DawnNews reported.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Only in Pakistan can Love turn to hate/death
Posted by: Fester Clunter7205 || 09/22/2012 8:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Abu Flounder: "I'd like 10,000 marbles please"
Posted by: Frank G || 09/22/2012 9:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Flounder?
Posted by: Shipman || 09/22/2012 14:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Animal House - parade scene....jeebus Ship!
Posted by: Frank G || 09/22/2012 14:58 Comments || Top||

#5  The naming Frank, the naming capsules.

Flounder?
Posted by: Shipman || 09/22/2012 18:57 Comments || Top||

#6  "Bloody Karachi"

...sounds to me like a "bloody karachi" could use a tampon...
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 09/22/2012 23:04 Comments || Top||


Violent mobs set afire six cinema houses in Karachi, Peshawar
[Dawn] Angry demonstrators set fire to at least six cinemas in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
and Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
on Friday amidst violent protests as the country marked a day of protests against an anti-Islam film.

Protestors attacked Capri, Nishat and Prince cinemas in Bloody Karachi, as they marched on the main M.A. Jinnah road in the city's downtown area.

According to DawnNews, Capri and Nishat cinemas were partially damaged while Prince cinema was set afire by violent mobs.

Meanwhile,
...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin...
one protester was maimed when a cinema guard opened fire as angry crowds armed with clubs and bamboo poles converged on the Firdaus picture house, smashing it up and setting furniture ablaze, police officer Gohar Ali told AFP.

Witnesses said a rampaging crowd stormed the Shama cinema, smashing windows and setting it on fire.

When the protestors reached Arbab Road in the thriving provincial capital, they attacked Capital cinema. The mobs broke down the cinema's main gate and set fire to its screen.

Tens of thousands are expected to take to the streets across the country after the government called an impromptu public holiday to let people protest.

Security in the country was tight, with shops and businesses closed and usually busy streets deserted, after calls from all the major political and religious parties for a day of protest.

The authorities shut down the mobile phone network in major cities across the country in an effort to avoid violence.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336065 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Goat Rodeo ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/22/2012 8:29 Comments || Top||


Pak FO hands over démarche to U.S. ambassador over anti-Islam film
[Dawn] The Foreign Office on Friday summoned acting US Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland and registering a formal protest, demanded of the US government to remove the anti-Islam film from social networking and video-sharing website YouTube as well as punish those involved in its making, DawnNews reported.

The Foreign Office handed over a démarche to Hoagland in protest against the anti-Islam film on behalf of the Pak government.

The démarche stated that the film, said to have been made in the US, was akin to an attack on the world's 1.5 billion Mohammedans.

Pakistain moreover stated that the film aimed at fanning hatred among the people of different faiths and demanded the US government to take steps for the film's removal from YouTube.

The government also demanded that action be taken against the film's author and against those involve in its making.

On the occasion, Hoagland said the US government and leadership had condemned the anti-Islam film severely, adding that, a majority of the American people viewed it as offensive to the religious sensibilities of the world's Mohammedan population.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Boilerplate is a term of derision for the most part, but here's a perfect place to use it.

"I understand why you are asking my country to do this, but it is not going to happen. Feel free to keep on asking, as long as you understand that it is never going to happen.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2012 8:48 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF soldiers attacked on Egypt border, kill 3 terrorists
Soldiers engage in firefight with cut-throats attempting to infiltrate Israel from Egypt; suicide bomb belt goes off during shootout; "The IDF stopped a very big terrorist attack," IDF front man says.

A terrorist cell opened fire on IDF soldiers overseeing construction of the fence at the Egyptian-Israeli border on Friday afternoon.

The soldiers returned fire, and a heavy firefight ensued. Three bad boyz were potted in the fighting, the IDF Spokesman said. One of the dead cut-throats had a suicide bomb belt around him.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz was due to hold a special evaluation of the situation. OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Tal Russo was making his way to the scene of the shootout.

"The IDF stopped a very big terrorist attack," IDF front man Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said. "The incident occurred in the Har Harif area... in an area where the [border] fence has not yet been built."

Artillery Corps soldiers were overseeing the construction of the fence in the area. The second ground unit that stormed the cut-throats and killed the gunnies came from the Karkal (Wildcat) Battallion. Both male and female combat soldiers serve in the Karkal unit.

The cut-throats were heavily armed. During the firefight, a suicide bomb belt around one of the cut-throats went off.

"No one has been kidnapped, and there are no cut-throats in Israeli territory," Mordechai added.

The Sinai Peninsula has become a hornet's nest of jihadi activity, and is also often used by Gazoo terror elements to launch attacks on the southern Israeli border.

On Wednesday, three Paleostinian bad boyz were potted in an Arclight airstrike in Gazoo. They were planning to carry out an imminent terror attack in Israel, and in the past had attempted to smuggle explosives out of Gazoo and into Israel through Sinai. The cut-throats belonged to the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, offshoot group Defenders of Al-Aqsa.

Last month, cut-throats with explosives in Sinai murdered 16 Egyptian security personnel and tried to burst through the Israeli border with vehicles they hijacked from an Egyptian base. The IDF stemmed the attack and destroyed the hijacked vehicle, killing the terrorists.

In 2011, eight Israelis were murdered by a terror cell that crossed into Israel from Egypt's Sinai.
Ma'an adds:
An Israeli soldier also died in the exchange of fire, the army said.

A group of bully boyz entered Israel through a gap in fence construction halfway down the border and opened fire on Israeli soldiers, an army front man said. A nearby patrol returned fire, killing three people, he said.

Security sources said earlier that at least two soldiers were maimed.

The identities and nationalities of the bully boyz have not been confirmed, the military front man said. An boom belt was found on one of the casualties, an army statement said.

An Egyptian security source said one of the gunnies died when a bomb he was carrying detonated and the other two were killed in a gunbattle with Israeli forces, adding that the nationalities of the gunnies were not immediately clear.

Israel has been building a fence along the 260 km-long frontier with Egypt's Sinai desert and it is due to be completed by the end of 2012.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under:


Olde Tyme Religion
Pakistani gov minister has offered a $100K reward for the death of film maker
A Pakistani government minister has offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of an anti-Islam film produced in the US.

Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told the Associated Press (AP) that he would pay the reward for the "sacred duty" out of his own pocket.

He suggested the Taliban and al-Qaeda would be eligible for the reward.
Ghulam Bilour should be on the predator hit list...
Posted by: Water Modem || 09/22/2012 12:46 || Comments || Link || [336116 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's trying to set up a murder for hire of a US citizen. FBI, get to work...

Hahahahahahahahhahahahhhahhahahhaaaaaaaa...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2012 13:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Railways minister? Might be a good time for a train wreck. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/22/2012 13:31 Comments || Top||

#3  What a primitive Mr. Bilour is. If he had any sophistication he would have offered a $100,000 donation to the DNC.
Posted by: Matt || 09/22/2012 13:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't doubt that there's already someome trying to work him in that direction. GOP too...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/22/2012 13:41 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 Levant their plans have been known for years even before this! I guess you all missed that Al Qaeda show on CNBC with all the bankers and Euro trash-hahahahahaha! The FRENCH LED THE CHARGE SIGNS ABOUT ISRAEL SAME THINK TANK (911) MARYLAND KABOB KING AFGHANISTAN MARIA B LOOKED NICE IN HER BERKA THAT MORNING ALSO AL QAEDA PUT THAT GUN TO EUROPES HEAD TO SIGN RIGHT FIRST @ INVADED LIBYA AND EGYPT REMEMBER WHO STARTS IT LOSES IT!




In a recent intercepted message from al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-
Zawahiri, to al-Qaeda's new operational commander in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, these
concepts are spelled out and can be extrapolated as ends, ways and means not just for al-
Zarqawi in Iraq, but for the entire Islamic extremist movement. In the message al-Zawahiri
details the plan for success in Iraq:
It has always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a
Muslim state is established in the manner of the Prophet in the heart of the
Islamic world, specifically in the Levant, Egypt, and the neighboring states of the
Peninsula and Iraq...If our intended goal in this stage is the establishment of a
caliphate in the manner of the Prophet, then the Jihad in Iraq requires several
incremental goals: The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second
stage: Establish an Islamic authority or amirate, then develop it and support it
until it achieves the level of a caliphate...The third stage: Extend the jihad wave
to the secular countries neighboring Iraq. The fourth stage: the clash with Israel.9



http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a449442.pdf
Posted by: Angiting Snore1647 || 09/22/2012 14:13 Comments || Top||

#6  A government hack that can afford a $100K US bounty payment surely isn't on the take, is he?
Posted by: Raj || 09/22/2012 14:29 Comments || Top||

#7  A government hack that can afford a $100K US bounty payment surely isn't on the take, is he?

Nah. The US government just gives it to them, no strings attached.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/22/2012 14:35 Comments || Top||

#8  5th Stage: Prophet! or at least a decent return on your jehad.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/22/2012 14:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Someone should offer the same or more for his castrated flayed corpse. This is why we need microwave beam weapons in orbit. Someone says something like this, next day, they are found exploded in their office or better yet, while speaking on TV.

Death to Amer- *ZAP*

We can call it our Gentle Warming Ray of Happiness aka Imperialist America Death Ray
Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division || 09/22/2012 15:20 Comments || Top||

#10  "Voice" of America v2...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/22/2012 20:25 Comments || Top||

#11  No worries. I'm sure the international court in the Hague will jump right on it.
Posted by: Flaitch Big Foot1182 || 09/22/2012 21:48 Comments || Top||

#12  Maybe he can get an NSF grant.
Posted by: Perfesser || 09/22/2012 21:55 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Five Abu Sayyaf terrorists killed in rescue of Chinese trader
Government security forces rescued a Chinese hostage and killed five kidnappers belonging to the Abu Sayyaf on Thursday in a raid on the terrorist group's newly established training camp in Zamboanga City.

Yuan-Kai Lin, an executive for a mining firm, was rescued safely, while five of his abductors were killed and one was captured.

Those killed were identified as Termije Ajijul and his wife Sitti Raja Salvin, Abu Ulm, Arab-Arab and Banah-Banah. Sambri Aslon Kamlon alias Abu Ziad, on the other hand, was taken into custody by the Philippine National Police-Western Mindanao Command.

The group's leader, Khair Mundos, was shot and seriously injured but escaped. Mundos is a key leader and financier of the Abu Sayyaf. The United States Department of Justice is offering $500,000 for information leading to his arrest.

He was captured in 2004, but he escaped from jail in 2007. While in custody, he confessed to arranging funding for terrorist bombings throughout Mindanao.

Before the raid of the Abu Sayyaf camp, authorities received information that the Abu Sayyaf recently set up a training camp in a secluded Sitio Porlos in Barangay Calabasa, Zamboanga City. Initial reports revealed that the camp was also being used by Mundos' group in keeping hostages, training grounds and safe havens of other Abu Sayyaf comrades from Basilan and Sulu provinces.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf

#1  The Chinese managed to shoot Khair Mundos but then let him escape? Curious tale.
Posted by: American Delight || 09/22/2012 4:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Zamboanga City is in the Philippines. Hence the words "Philippine National Police-Western Mindanao Command" in the article

I highly doubt the Philippine government would let the Chinese do the rescue ops in any case.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/22/2012 10:25 Comments || Top||


Car bomb kills 5, injures 50 in southern Thailand
A powerful car bomb exploded at a market in Pattani province yesterday, killing six people and injuring scores of people, including security officers who were lured to the bomb scene.

The bomb went off about 12:30 p.m. at Taluban municipality market in Sai Buri district. Several shop-houses were set ablaze. The blast killed six people, two who died instantly at the scene, and injured almost 50 people, including police, defense volunteers and civilians. Of the wounded, 10 were seriously injured.

The bomb went off when a team of police and defense volunteers were lured to a gold shop, opposite a motorcycle repair shop where the car with the bomb was parked.

The officers went to the gold shop after a phone tip that an unknown number of armed men had earlier opened fire on the shop, which is only 100 meters from the police station.

The explosion caused damage to several shophouses. Many cars and motorcyles caught fire.

Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha admitted terrorism violence still existed in the far South even if a group of 93 southern terrorists rebels recently turned themselves to authorities as there were several groups of terrorists insurgents.

Speaking after his visit to Indonesia, the army chief said he had discussed the southern situation with his Indonesian counterpart. He quoted the Indonesian army chief of staff Gen Pramono Edhie Wibowo as saying that Thailand was on the right track to solve the problem.

He said he would give justice to terrorists insurgents who surrendered and to victims of southern violence. Gen Prayuth said terrorists insurgents involved in minor offences such as strewing metal spikes on roads may not face punishment, but those involved in serious offenses would not escape legal action.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336063 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria Army, Rebels Clash near Aleppo Bases
[An Nahar] Syrian troops backed by helicopter gunships clashed with rebels near a barracks in Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
on Friday as battles broke out around a military airport elsewhere in the northern province, monitors said.

In Damascus
...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
, state news agency SANA said the army unearthed the bodies of 25 people shot execution-style in the Qadam district and blamed "armed terrorist groups," the regime's term for rebels.

In other developments, a masked gunman on a cycle of violence killed prominent Kurdish activist Mahmoud Wali on Thursday in northeastern Syria, fellow activists said.

And a tolerated opposition group said two members -- Abdel Aziz Khayer and Iyas Ayash -- had gone missing along with the man who had collected them from Damascus airport after they returned from a trip to China to discuss an end to the violence.

The National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change groups Arab nationalists, Kurds and socialists.

In the Arkoub district of Aleppo, fighting erupted overnight near the Hanano army barracks, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Several districts of the northern metropolis, including Sakhur in the northeast and Bustan al-Qasr in the center, came under overnight attack, the Britannia-based monitoring group said.

Elsewhere in the province, fighting broke out between troops and rebels near the Meng military airport, it said.

Military airfields have been a key rebel target because the regime is increasingly using air power to launch devastating strikes.

Northwest of the capital, the Observatory reported a massive kaboom believed to have been a car boom. Heavy gunfire was heard afterwards but there were no immediate reports of casualties.

In the central province of Homs, a civilian was killed in dawn shelling of Rastan, while the eastern city of Deir Ezzor and the town of Daal in the southern province of Daraa were also bombarded.

In Damascus, SANA said, soldiers acting on a tip-off from local residents found a mass grave containing 25 bodies with their hands tied and eyes masked. They had been kidnapped and killed by rebels, it said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
a U.N. commission investigating rights violations in Syria said it should be allowed to continue its work and get more resources.

In its latest report, the commission accused the regime and, to a lesser extent, rebel forces of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Protesters erupted into the streets after the main weekly Moslem prayers, as on every Friday since the revolt broke out in March 2011, activists said.

This week's slogan for protests was "the beloved of the Prophet in Syria are being massacred," reflecting demonstrations in several Moslem states over a U.S.-produced film mocking the Prophet Mohammed.

There were demonstrations in the capital and in Damascus province, as well as in Daraa, Hama, Aleppo and Hasaka.

Security forces fired on gatherings in the Qusur and Al-Arbain districts of Hama, and a number of people were placed in long-term storage
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
, while some demonstrators were maimed in the Aleppo provincial town of Atareb.

At least 11 people were killed in violence on Friday, the Observatory said, a day after as many as 225 died, including at least 30 in a petrol station blast in Raqa in the north, blamed on a regime air raid.

According to the Observatory, at least 29,000 people have been killed in the 18-month revolt against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
Syria's information minister denied that Assad had granted an exclusive interview to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram al-Arabi, which claimed he hit out at Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
, Turkey and Qatar, accusing them of arming Syrian rebels and insisting they will not win.

Omran al-Zohbi said Assad had had an informal conversation with nine Egyptian journalists and that his comments had been taken out of context.

On the humanitarian front, Syria's ally Russia flew in almost 80 tonnes of food aid, SANA reported.

And Iraq denied permission for a North Korean aircraft to cross its airspace on its way to Syria over suspicions it was carrying arms and advisers, an official in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Police Arrest 14 Suspects in Leb Tripoli's KFC Assault
[An Nahar] The police chief of the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
revealed on Friday that 14 people have been nabbed
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
in the assault on an KFC outlet and the Serail during protests against an anti-Islam U.S. film last week.

Brig. Gen. Bassam al-Ayyoubi said the 14 suspects had set alight the fast food restaurant and tried to storm the Tripoli Serail in protests over the low-budget film "Innocence of Mohammedans" that has fanned global Mohammedan anger.

Police have information about 22 other people involved in the assaults and a manhunt is underway to arrest them, he said.

"No one has (political) cover and security forces will go ahead in their mission," al-Ayyoubi added.

One demonstrator was killed and 25 were maimed in the festivities with security forces last Friday.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336068 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Popeye.... that's all I'm saying. They got the means, the beans and the motive.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/22/2012 14:47 Comments || Top||


Muslims in Lebanon Protest Film, Cartoons amid Death Calls
[An Nahar] Mohammedans, Sunnis and Shiites, in Leb erupted into the streets on Friday to vent their anger over a U.S.-made film and French cartoons mocking Islam.

In the southern port city of Sidon, Sunni holy mans called "a day of rage" against insults to the Prophet Mohammed but urged followers to contain their anger to inside their mosques.

French schools were closed and the army was deployed at French institutions in Sidon, Beirut and the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, in anticipation of a backlash against the publication of obscene cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a French satirical magazine.

Separately, thousands of supporters of Hizbullah and the AMAL movement erupted into the streets after Friday prayers in the eastern city of Baalbek, an AFP correspondent said.

The Sunni authority for Sidon and several holy mans in Tripoli called for Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
and Egypt's Al-Azhar -- the highest authorities in Sunni Islam -- to issue a fatwa condoning the murder of anyone associated with the film and for those who denigrate Islam or its prophet.

"He who dares to insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammed shall not live. There are things that cannot be tolerated and insulting the Prophet Mohammed is one of them"
"He who dares to insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammed shall not live. There are things that cannot be tolerated and insulting the Prophet Mohammed is one of them," Sheikh Maher Hammoud, imam of the Quds mosque, said during his sermon.

"Every one of these should be killed."

An AFP correspondent in Sidon said 300 people gathered at the mosque and that, after Friday's weekly Mohammedan prayers, protesters burned U.S. and Israeli flags while chanting "Death to America™, death to Israel!"

In Tripoli, radical Islamist holy man Omar Bakri called on the "soldiers of Islam" to avenge the creators of the film and publishers of the cartoons, an AFP correspondent reported.

Bakri asked fellow Mohammedans to support a fatwa that would make it "legitimate to kill those who have insulted the Prophet Mohammed."

"I'm not in favor of the demonstrations that condemn, because they do more harm than good. They are not a solution to stop these continuous abuses against our religion; this can only happen with a strong response," Bakri said.

Outside Tripoli, Sheikh Mustafa Malas decried the silence of Arab and Mohammedan officials toward their American and French counterparts.

"Arab and Islamic countries must take a decisive stand against the United States and La Belle France after the insults to our Prophet, and boycott their goods," he said during his Friday sermon.

"They have repeated these offensive behaviors ... Their actions amount to a war declared on Islam and they must not be surprised by reactions of reprisal."

The correspondent reported seeing military vehicles and a large army and police presence outside the French high school and cultural mission in the northern city of Tripoli.

The army has also stepped up security measures to protect the French ambassador's residence in Beirut with military vehicles.

Protesters also burned American and Israeli flags outside a Beirut mosque, where troops were on guard nearby.

A public demonstration called for by Sheikh Ahmed Asir, a controversial Sunni holy man, is set for 5:00 p.m. in downtown Beirut.
Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336064 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Arab and Islamic countries must take a decisive stand against the United States and La Belle France after the insults to our Prophet, and boycott their goods...and free money," don't forget the free money! ....he said during his Friday sermon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/22/2012 8:30 Comments || Top||



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